Back to Back Reading List

This collection of materials has been compiled by artist Uriel Orlow for anyone who would like to investigate further the themes and issues of his exhibition Back to Back. The list features a broad range of subject matter and formats that have informed his thinking, from history and architecture to memoir, poetry and cinema.

Robert BevanThe Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War

Fethiye ÇetinMy Grandmother

Brian DillonRuins

Hrant DinkChronicles of an Assassinated Journalist

Atom EgoyanArarat

Zabel EssayanAmongst the Ruins

David Eng (ed.)Loss: The Politics of Mourning

Avery GordonGhostly Matters

Maurice HalbwachsOn Collective Memory

Vladimir MayakovskyThe Bathhouse

Sayat NovaPoems

Orhan PamukSnow

Sergey ParajanovThe Colour of Pomegranates

Paul RicoeurTime and Narrative

Robert SmithsonA Tour of the Monuments of the Passaic

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